Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0

Data with a Binding Source 128 Monitoring the Data with Events 131 Restricting Changes to the Data 133 Underneath the Covers of Data Binding for Complex Types 134 Binding an Image Column to a PictureBox Control 141 Binding a DateTime Column to a DateTimePicker 142 Binding a DateTime Column to a TextBox 144 Binding a Numeric Column to a TextBox 145 Automatic Formatting and Parsing Summary 147 Going Beyond Built-In Type Conversion with Binding Events 148 Handling the Format Event 154 Handling the Parse Event 156 Completing the Editing Process 157 Making the User's Life Easier with AutoComplete 160 Data Binding Lifecycle 162 Smarter Child-Parent Data Binding 163 Binding to Multiple Copies of Data 165 Updating Parent Data-Bound Controls from Child Data-Bound Controls 168 Synchronizing Many-to-Many Related Collections 172 Where Are We? 176 Chapter 5: Generating Bound Controls with the Visual Studio Designer 177 Working with the Data Sources Window 177 Adding Data Sources to a Project 179 Choosing the Type of Data Source 180 Adding a Database Data Source 181 Adding a Web Service Data Source 185 Adding an Object Data Source 186 Generating Bound Controls from Data Sources 189 Selecting the Bound Control Type 196 Customizing the Bound Control Types 196 Binding Existing Controls to Data Sources 199 Behind the Scenes: Designer Code and Data Sources Files 202 Other Designer Data-Binding Code Generation 205 Setting Control Data Binding Through the Properties Window 206 Generating Data Bindings with Smart Tags 210 Generating Master-Details Data-Bound Controls with the Designer 214 Where Are We? 216 Chapter 6: Presenting Data with the DataGridView Control 217 DataGridView Overview 218 Basic Data Binding with the DataGridView 219 Controlling Modifications to Data in the Grid 221 Programmatic DataGridView Construction 222 Custom Column Content with Unbound Columns 226 Displaying Computed Data in Virtual Mode 233 Using the Built-In Column Types 241 Built-In Header Cells 255 Handling Grid Data Edits 256 Automatic Column Sizing 259 Column and Row Freezing 262 Using the Designer to Define Grids 263 Column Reordering 266 Defining Custom Column and Cell Types 269 Utilizing Cell-Oriented Grid Features 277 Formatting with Styles 281 Where Are We? 284 Chapter 7: Understanding Data-Binding Interfaces 285 What Does Data Binding Have to Do with Interfaces? 286 The IEnumerable and IEnumerator Interfaces: Supporting Iteration Through Collections 289 The ICollection Interface: Controlling Access to a Collection 295 The IList Interface: Enabling Data Binding 298 The IListSource Interface: Exposing Collections of Collections 303 Property Descriptors: Allowing Dynamic Data Item Information Discovery 305 The ITypedList Interface: Exposing Data-Binding Properties 307 The IBindingList Interface: Providing Rich Binding Support 310 The IBindingListView Interface: Supporting Advanced Sorting and Filtering 323 The ICancelAddNew Interface: Supporting Transactional Inserts in a Collection 325 The IRaiseItemChangedEvents Interface: Providing Item Modification Notifications on Collections 327 The IEditableObject Interface: Supporting Transactional Item Modifications 328 The INotifyPropertyChanged Interface: Publishing Item Change Notifications 329 The ICustomTypeDescriptor Interface: Exposing Custom Type Information 332 The ISupportInitialize Interface: Supporting Designer Initialization 334 The IDataErrorInfo Interface: Providing Error Information 330 The ISupportInitializeNotification Interface: Supporting Interdependent Component Initialization 337 The ICurrencyManagerProvider Interface: Exposing a Data Container's CurrencyManager 341 Where Are We? 341 Chapter 8: Implementing Custom Data-Bound Controls 343 Extending Framework Data-Bound Controls 344 Creating a Grouped Column DataGridView 345 Using Custom Controls 350 The User Control Test Container 352 Developing Data-Bound Container Controls 353 Building a Filtered Grid Control 354 Adding Data-Binding Capability to a Custom Control 357 Supporting Designer Initialization of Data Binding 359 Specifying Binding Properties on a Control 360 Supporting Delayed Initialization with ISupportInitialize 362 Dynamically Determining the Properties of a Data Source 367 Autocompleting Input in a TextBox Control 371 Autosizing Columns in the Grid 375 Winding Up the Filtered Grid Example 376 Building a Custom Data-Bound Control from Scratch 379 Building a Data-Bound Charting Control for Decision Support 379 Coding a Data-Bound Custom Control 384 Adding Editing Support to a Custom Data Bound Control 391 Where Are We? 397 Chapter 9: Implementing Custom Data-Bound Business Objects and Collections 399 Defining and Working with Data-Bound Business Objects 400 Defining and Working with Data-Bound Business Object Collections 405 .NET Framework Generic Collection Classes 406 The CustomBusinessObjects Example 408 Setting the Textual Data-Binding Behavior of Custom Objects 415 Supporting Transacted Object Editing with IEditableObject 416 Supporting Object Edit Notifications with Property Change Events 420 Supporting Object Edit Notifications with INotifyPropertyChanged 423 Using BindingList to Create Rich Object Collections 424 Creating a Custom Collection Type Based on BindingList 426 Managing Transacted Additions to a Collection 439 Raising Item Changed Events 441 Adding IBindingListView Functionality 443 Binding to Business Objects Through the Data Sources Window 453 Where Are We? 455 Chapter 10: Validating Data Input and Handling Errors 457 Windows Forms Validation 458 Handling Validation Events 459 DataGridView Validation Events 462 Validation Up the Control Hierarchy 463 Displaying Validation Errors with the ErrorProvider Control 464 DataGridView Error Displays 467 DataGridView DataError Event 468 Controlling Validation Behavior with the AutoValidate Property 471 Validation down the Control Hierarchy 472 Extended Validation Controls 474 Capturing Data Errors on Data Sets 475 Providing Error Information from Custom Objects with IDataErrorInfo 479 Data Concurrency Resolution 483 Where Are We? 484 Appendix A: Binding to Data in ASP.NET 487 ASP.NET Page Processing Basics 489 Data Binding in ASP.NET 1.X 490 Data-Binding Overview in ASP.NET 2.0 498 Data Sources 499 Data-Binding Expressions 508 GridView Control 509 DetailsView Control 512 FormView Control 514 Master-Details Binding 515 Hierarchical Binding 518 Where Are We? 519 Appendix B: Binding Data in WinFx Applications 521 WinFx UI Programming and Capabilities Overview 522 Writing a Simple WinFx Application 525 WinFx Data Binding 101 532 Data Contexts and Data Sources 536 What About XAML? 537 Binding a Collection to a Grid with Templates 541 Control Styling in WinFx 543 Where Are We? 545 Appendix C: Programming Windows Forms Applications 547 Your First Windows Forms Data Application 548 Creating Windows Forms Applications with Visual Studio 554 Windows Forms Designer-Generated Code (New in 2.0) 563 A Brief Tour of the Windows Forms Architecture 567 The Dawn of .NET Execution--The Main Method 570 Handling Control Events 574 Displaying Other Forms 576 Containing Forms Within a Parent Form 577 Common Data Display Controls 578 Creating a Custom User Control 586 Laying Out Controls on a Form 589 Setting Tab Order 596 Command and Control of Your Windows Forms Applications (New in 2.0) 598 Where Are We? 600 Appendix D: Accessing Data with ADO.NET 601 Relational Data Access 603 The Ubiquitous DataSet 607 Loading Data Sets from a File 609 Creating a Data Set Programmatically 611 Loading Data Sets from a Database 613 Loading a DataTable with a DataReader 619 Master-Details DataSets 621 Retrieving Data with Stored Procedures 623 Updating the Database Using Data Sets 624 Handling Concurrency 628 Updating with Data Sets and Stored Procedures 632 Searching Data Sets 637 Merging Data from Multiple Data Sets 639 Working with Data Views 641 Working with Transactions 643 Scoping Transactions with System.Transactions 647 Client-Side Transactions 650 Data Set and Data Adapter Events 651 Reading Data into Business Objects 654 XML Data Access 658 Working with the XmlDataDocument Class 659 Working with the XPathDocument Class 663 Loading Data into an XPathDocument 664 Querying XML Data 665 Navigating an XML Document 667 Where Are We? 670 Index 671